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Re: libffi Darwin support
- From: John Hörnkvist <john at toastedmarshmallow dot com>
- To: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: libffi-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com,Bryce McKinlay <bryce at waitaki dot otago dot ac dot nz>
- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 05:28:19 +0100
- Subject: Re: libffi Darwin support
On Wednesday, November 28, 2001, at 05:15 , David Edelsohn wrote:
> John> Two questions, then:
> John> What is the proper name of the ABI?
>
> The ABI really is called the AIX ABI. There is a descendant
> called the PowerOpen ABI which changed a few things, but neither AIX nor
> Darwin follow the PowerOpen ABI.
Well, then my vote is for changing Darwin to AIX_ABI where Darwin refers
to the API and not the OS.
> John> Are you able to test that your changes don't break on Darwin/Mac
> OS X?
>
> I am not changing anything, unless we try to merge the two
> assembly files. The only thing I might want to change in ffi_darwin.c
> is
> to use sizeof(long) instead of sizeof(int) for stack offsets.
Sounds good.
/John
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